Re: Need advice for upgrading (21.3 --> 21.4)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.04.2005 um 22:11 schrieb Madhusudan Singh:

> My emacs installation is located in /usr/local/emacs. What is the best 
> way to upgrade from source while making sure that none of the 
> configurations and the great packages that I have installed after a 
> year or so of use, get lost, and work with version 21.4 ?

Put your great packages into the site-lisp directory and the site-wide 
configurations into the same, or a file in there. Files in the 
site-lisp directory or any of its sub-directories are not touched, 
except for subdirs.el. So your code will be saved. In case of GNU Emacs 
21.4 there can be guaranteed that the upgrade won't change the function 
of that code since the change from 21.3 to 21.4 happed only because of 
security reasons.

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